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Barack Obama to report sufficient progress in halting Taliban momentum to allow small-scale pullout of US troops in July.
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FIVE US soldiers allegedly blew up three Afghan civilians with grenades and kept their body parts, including a skull and fingers, as trophies.
New documents released...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar said on Wednesday his fighters were close to victory in driving foreign forces out of Afghanistan, flouting claims of progress against...
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As many as 2,000 additional troops — including a number of U.S. forces — may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan being proposed by...
made popular Sep 6 2010
It was a long time of seven years before U.S. finally ended its mission in Iraq. What exactly was the mission, that’s still unclear though… It all started with a...
made popular Sep 2 2010
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his government had information al Qaeda-linked groups were planning a series of attacks across the country, state...
made popular Aug 28 2010
A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the predawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border...
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Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group by paying them more than the monthly salary...
made popular Aug 12 2010
As I`m trying to compose this piece of writing, the host of the radio show is talking about breast cancer and preventive methods requesting her audience to follow her...
made popular Mar 31 2010
A suicide bomber has exploded a car in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, killing at least seven people and wounding 13, officials have said.
The explosion took...
made popular Mar 15 2010
Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 48 others before a...
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President Obama’s plain-speaking Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, on Nov. 12 summed up the Administration’s Afghan dilemma in a single question: “How...
made popular Nov 17 2009
In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union...
made popular Nov 9 2009
President Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq and end combat operations there by September 2010 is under threat because of increased levels of violence and...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Afghanistan’s Taliban mocked the award of a Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday, saying he should get a Nobel Prize for violence...
made popular Oct 10 2009
U.S. Gen. Ray Odierno is expected to tell the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that there has been a significant drop in violence in Iraq recently,...
made popular Sep 30 2009
U.S. troops burst into a Swedish charity-run hospital in Afghanistan and tied up patients’ relatives and staff, the charity said on Sunday, in what it called a...
made popular Sep 7 2009
German federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a man suspected of helping a terrorist cell that allegedly plotted attacks against U.S. troops in Germany.
made popular Aug 29 2009
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Commanders of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, as the American-led coalition is formally called, have a looming nomenclature problem.
Two days from now, there will no...
made popular Jul 29 2009
A security agreement that went into effect at the start of the year mandated the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June 30. Almost a month...
made popular Jul 28 2009
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won’t ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense officials hadn’t...
made popular Jul 17 2009
The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her...
made popular Jul 11 2009
United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
made popular Jul 4 2009
The United States army says it has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
The US military says about 4,000 marines...
made popular Jul 2 2009
On 30 June the last US troops will pull out of the Iraqi cities. America’s great adventure in Iraq is ending. Already there are few US military patrols in...
made popular Jun 23 2009
The Iraqi government expects al-Qa’ida and Baathist insurgent groups to launch a wave of attacks so they can take credit for compelling the US military to leave...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Yesterday’s attack on Peshawar’s Pearl Continental Hotel was the latest signal of Pakistan’s growing Islamist insurgency.
Since the raid by the Pakistani...
made popular Jun 12 2009
“What are you doing?” For the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the answer to the latest social networking craze seems to be: “Killing...
made popular Jun 2 2009
US Admits Troops Killed Afghanistan Mother, Children
Jason Ditz, April 09, 2009
“Early this morning, the United States reported that its forces in the Khost...
made popular Apr 13 2009
It is nice for the White House to clear up that the preemptive invasion of a nation without U.N. sanction makes America’s 150,000 troops in Iraq...
made popular Dec 17 2008
Iraq has demanded a clear commitment from the US that its forces will have left its soil by the end of 2011.
made popular Oct 29 2008
Henry Kissinger was no amateur when it came to illegally bombing and invading countries that he and the evil President Nixon considered did not meet American...
made popular Sep 27 2008
At a combat outpost near Dara-I-Pech, Afghanistan, US Troops repeled a large group of Afghan insurgents. US officials say 200, while Afghan sources say between 400 to...
made popular Jul 16 2008
Newly diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan surged 46.4 percent in 2007, bringing the five-year total to...
made popular May 28 2008
The US military says an Apache helicopter has accidentally destroyed one of its own armoured vehicles in eastern Baghdad.
The military says the incident occurred...
made popular Apr 13 2008
There were no real surprises in the recommendations of US Gen David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on what is next for Iraq.
It was simply a confirmation for the...
made popular Apr 10 2008
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# The ORB/Channel 4 News survey of 4,000 people suggested that seven out of 10 Iraqis want foreign forces to leave.
# Red Cross says that millions of Iraqis have...
made popular Mar 18 2008
What kind of discipline is imposed on the U.S. military, they do not leave a single stone unturned with their malicious and iniquitous deeds, first we witnessed their...
made popular Feb 18 2008
As many as 20 percent of U.S. combat troops who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan leave with signs they may have had a concussion, and some do not realize they need...
made popular Jan 18 2008
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